OREANDA-NEWS. June 28, 2010. An Extraordinary General Shareholders' Meeting of Rostelecom (RТS and  MICEX: RTKM, RTKMP; OTC: ROSYY), terminated the powers of the former Board of Directors of the Company and elected a new Board of Directors with the following members:

1. Anatoly B. Ballo, Management Board member, Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank;

2. Vladimir N. Bondarik, Deputy General Director of Svyazinvest;

3. Sergei I. Kuznetsov, Member of Independent Directors’ National Register of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs;

4. Konstantin V. Malofeev, Managing Partner of MarCap Advisors Limited;

5. Mikhail I. Poluboyarinov, Director of Infrastructure Department of Vnesheconombank;

6. Alexander Yu. Provotorov, First Deputy General Director of Svyazinvest;

7. Viktor D. Savchenko, Deputy General Director of Svyazinvest;

8. Yury V. Surkov, Deputy Director of Infrastructure Department of Vnesheconombank;

9. Anatoly V. Tikhonov, Management Board member, First Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank;

10. Yelena V. Umnova, Deputy General Director of Svyazinvest;

11. Evgeny V. Yurchenko, General Director of Svyazinvest";

At the first meeting of the new Board of Directors Evgeny Yurchenko was elected as the Chairman of the Board.

Rostelecom’s Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting was convened at the request of the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency as a shareholder which owns at least 10% of the Company's voting shares. The agenda of the meeting was as follows:

1. On premature termination of the powers of the members of Rostelecom’s Board of Directors;

2. On election of a new Board of Directors of Rostelecom

According to Rostelecom’s Charter the company’s Board of Directors consists of 11 members.